Zuni National Forest

Zuni National Forest

Zuni National Forest was established by the U.S. Forest Service in Arizona and New Mexico on March 2, 1909 with 670,981 acres from parts of the Zuni and Navajo and other tribal lands. On September 10, 1914 Zuni was transferred to Manzano National Forest. The lands presently exist in Cibola National Forest. [citation|title=PDFlink| [http://www.foresthistory.org/Research/usfscoll/places/National%20Forests%20of%20the%20U.S.pdf National Forests of the United States] |341 KB|date=September 29, 2005|author=Davis, Richard C.|publisher=The Forest History Society]

The Zuni Forest is presently part of the Mount Taylor Ranger District of Cibola National Forest, in the Zuni Mountains to the west of Grants in Cibola and McKinley Counties. [cite web|url=http://www.fs.fed.us/r3/cibola/districts/mttaylor.shtmll|date=2008-08-25|work=Cibola National Forest|title=Mt. Taylor Ranger District|publisher=U.S. Forest Service] The forest is bordered on the south by El Malpais National Monument.

References

External links

* [ [http://www.fs.fed.us/r3/cibola/districts/mttaylor.shtml Cibola National Forest, Mount Taylor Ranger District]
* [http://www.foresthistory.org/ Forest History Society]
* [http://www.foresthistory.org/Research/usfscoll/places/National%20Forests%20of%20the%20U.S.pdf Forest History Society:Listing of the National Forests of the United States] "Text from Davis, Richard C., ed. Encyclopedia of American Forest and Conservation History. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company for the Forest History Society, 1983. Vol. II, pp. 743-788."


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